Key to further training.

Even utilizing the existing pipeline of skilled workers being produced by U.S. universities is dependent on high-skilled immigration, as roughly two-thirds of U.S. graduate students in fields relevant to chipmaking are foreign-born. The status quo for these students already hampers U.S. competitiveness as major flaws in the current immigration system are allowing these students to be successfully recruited by other countries with better functioning high-skilled immigration systems. For example, over 45,000 foreign-born graduates of U.S. colleges have been recruited to Canada’s high-skilled immigration programs in recent years.[4] This exodus is no surprise given that the insufficient supply of employment-based green cards that often leaves skilled workers stuck on temporary visas for a decade or more.